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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Snapshot Autobiography

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is history? And why do historical accounts differ? In this lesson, students create brief autobiographies and then reflect on the process to better understand how history is written. Exploring these...
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Lesson Exchange: Alphabetical Autobiography

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan format for a high school student to write an autobiography using the elementary school alphabet book format. ("A is for Alabama. I was born in Alabama")
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: It's My Life Multimodal Autobiography Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask learners to write autobiographies before creating multimedia presentations for them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Other

Laus Dnet: Grade 4 Word Lesson Plan (My Autobiography) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students research the history, meaning, and personal significance of their life story. Students will interview parents and reflect on their own experiences to learn the history of their lives. Contains links to step...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Digital Autobiography

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will create original poetry and prose and will assemble a written autobiographical booklet in a middle school language arts class. After all poetry and prose are written, students will create a digital slideshow...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bio Bags Linking Literature and Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five 30-40 minute lessons that ask students to create BioBags, a kind of literature autobiography. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...
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Yale University

Ynhti: My Place in Time, by Michael Conte, Jr.

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson site from the Yale University provides narrative, notes, and teacher and student bibliographies. Investigates the "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin."
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Look at Me!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: This Is My Life!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This assignment requires you to write about your own life, your family, and the things that are influencing you so far in your personal journey. The result will be a short autobiography of your own and hopefully a little more...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Who Am I? Learning With Biographies

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students often have difficulty differentiating between genres of books in the library media center. During this lesson, students learn to identify a biography and understand the types of information included in this genre. Students will...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Helen Keller: Author, Advocate, and Activist Video

For Students 3rd - 8th
Through viewing a video about Helen Keller's life, examining a 1904 photograph of Keller, and reading excerpts of her autobiography, young scholars will learn about Helen Keller's commitment to advocating for equal treatment for people...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based: Reading Like a Historian: Chinese Immigration, Exclusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students reading primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This inquiry lesson allows students to explore the social and economic factors that fueled the wave of...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Night of the Blizzard One Teacher's Story [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script of blizzard story co-written by Mary Evans Andrews, a free-lance writer, and a former early 1900's teacher, "Miss Lydia", is provided on these pages. Ten character roles are needed in this activity. Reading...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Childhood Remembrances: Lesson Plans for "Nikki Rosa"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Giovanni's poem as a springboard, these lessons guide learners through an autobiographical writing exercise. Includes multimedia and interactive elements.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: All About Me Story

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This series of lessons engages students in autobiographical writing. Students will participate in pre-writing, drafting, and publishing stories about their lives.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: A Book About Me

For Teachers K
This lesson plan engages students in using a template to help them with personal writing. Students will gain exposure to several autobiographies and then will write their own autobiographical pieces.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Childhood Artifacts to Inspire a Narrative

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This site contains a book review of Knots in My Yo-yo String: the Autobiography of a Kid, which is a memoir by Jerry Spinelli. A suggested activity is included that asks students to bring in important mementos that the students will...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Twelve Years a Slave

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine several documents related to the life of Solomon Northup, whose life story is told in his autobiography Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing an Autobiographical Incident

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson in which students are required to read and analyze biographies and autobiographies and use them as a model for writing about an autobiographical experience. Students complete the writing process and share written work with the class.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alphabiography Project Totally You

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that ask middle schoolers to write autobiographies using aspects of their lives for each letter of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Autobiographical Magazines

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This assignment is designed for students to tell about themselves through writing and creative media. The students compile original articles and illustrations into an autobiographical magazine.
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Other

Laus Dnet: Grade 3 Word Lesson Plan (Me, Myself and I)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this lesson, students write their life story. Reflecting on a series of key questions, students will tell the tale of who they really are. Contains links to step sheets for creating a new document in Word, creating Word Art, and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring and Sharing Family Stories

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

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